Jessica DiCicco Biography

Jessica Sonya DiCicco (born June 10, 1980) is an American actress known for voicing in animated television series and video games. Some of her major voice roles in animation include Maggie in The Buzz on Maggie and Flame Princess in Adventure Time. She was the voice of Nickelodeon's educational channel block Noggin and Miguzi on Cartoon Network. She received a Daytime Emmy nomination for voicing Malina in The Emperor's New School.

Early life

DiCicco was born in Los Angeles, California to television and film actor Bobby DiCicco Her family moved to New York City when she was young. In second grade, she was selected by Marlo Thomas to appear on the ABC special Free to Be... A Family. She was also cast by Francis Ford Coppola in The Godfather Part III as an unnamed child. and also had a guest role in Kate and Allie. She had a small role as young Cindy Zagarella in the 1993 film Household Saints. At age 15, she was the photographer on a cover story for New York magazine about prep school gangsters, which was published on December 1996.

Career

DiCicco attended Newhouse School at Syracuse University, hoping to learn more about production as she had done mostly on-camera work with Nickelodeon. Before heading to college, she met a Newhouse alum and Nickelodeon producer Mike Pecoriello who offered her an opportunity to be the voice of a developing educational programming network called Noggin. She agreed to do the work while being a student and offered to record promos from Syracuse, She was the voice of Noggin throughout her college years, and graduated in 2002. She was also the voice of Miguzi's Erin on Cartoon Network.

In 1998, DiCicco appeared in the NBC miniseries Witness to the Mob and in the Disney film In the Nick of Time. Besides her appearances in television and commercials, DiCicco has worked on stage with several repertory companies. In 1999, DiCicco and her co-stars in the Nickelodeon pilot Bus No. 9 were nominated a Young Artist Award, but lost to The Sweetest Gift. She also starred in a miniseries called As Our Schoolbus Turns.

As a voice actress, DiCicco had lead roles on The Buzz on Maggie, The Emperor's New School, Loonatics Unleashed, and Shuriken School. She had recurring roles on The Replacements, El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, American Dragon: Jake Long, Bratz, and All Grown Up!. She co-starred as Shelby in the DreamWorks film Over the Hedge and voiced Gwen on Amy Poehler's television series for Nickelodeon, The Mighty B!. DiCicco was the voice of Master Viper in the Kung Fu Panda short film Secrets of the Furious Five. In 2012, she joined the Cartoon Network show Adventure Time in its third season, where she voiced Flame Princess; the show has now run over seven seasons. She also voiced in Pound Puppies and Gravity Falls. She also voices Lynn and Lucy Loud in the Nickelodeon animated series, The Loud House. She was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in 2008 for her performance as Malina on The Emperor's New School, but lost to Eartha Kitt, who did Yzma in the same series. Currently DiCicco provides the voice of Toby the cactus and the sounds of the mule Clementine on Sheriff Callie's Wild West.

DiCicco has also contributed to several video games, including Psychonauts, Kingdom Hearts II, Hot Shots Tennis, and Pimp My Ride.

Personal life

DiCicco's younger sister Kate is a musician.

Filmography

Live action

List of live-action acting performances in film and television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
	Kate and Allie		Ep. "The Wedding"
	The Godfather Part III	Child
	Household Saints	Young Cindy Zagarella
	Witness to the Mob	Karen	TV movie
	Bus No. 9	Jessica	TV movie
	I Know That Voice	Herself

Animation

List of voice performances in animation

Year	Series	Role	Notes	Source
-06	The Buzz on Maggie	Maggie Pesky
-07	Loonatics Unleashed	Lexi Bunny
-08	The Emperor's New School	Malina
	Jim Henson's Frances	Frances
-06	Danger Rangers	Manny, Moe	Ep. "Medicine Mix Up"
-06	Bratz	Roxxi, Fianna
-11	The Mighty B!	Gwen
	The Secret Saturdays	Tiacapari
	The Penguins of Madagascar	Bradley, Ramona, Samuel
-09	Random! Cartoons	Gloom, Fuzzy Animal	Ep. "Sparkles and Gloom"
-present	Adventure Time	Flame Princess	season 3–
	Motorcity	Ruby the Dark Slayer	Ep. "Ride of the Fantasy Vans"
	Sofia the First	Grotta
-15	Gravity Falls	Tambry, others
	Guardians of the Galaxy	Tana
	X-Ray and Vav	Ash Samaya
-present	The Loud House	Lynn Loud, Lucy Loud, Zach, others
	Puppy Dog Pals	Hissy
	Hanazuki: Full of Treasures	Hanazuki, Blue Hemka, Lime Green Hemka

Anime

List of voice performances in anime

Year	Series	Role	Notes	Source
2015	Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works	Yukika Saegusa	TV series

Feature films

List of voice performances in feature films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2006	Over the Hedge	Shelby

Direct-to-video and television films

List of voice performances in direct-to-video and television films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2006	Bratz: Passion 4 Fashion Diamondz	Sheridan
2008	Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five	Young Viper
2008	Unstable Fables: Goldilocks & 3 Bears Show	Misty Bear, Gretel, Girl Fan 2
2011	Tinker Bell and the Pixie Hollow Games	Lilac
2015	Jungle Shuffle	Sacha, Young Sacha
2016	Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League: Cosmic Clash	Supergirl
2017	DC Super Hero Girls: Hero of the Year	Star Sapphire
2017	Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown	Desdemona Gunderson

Video games

List of voice performances in video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
	Psychonauts	Franke Athens
	Kingdom Hearts II	Olette	also Final Mix in 2007
	Hot Shots Tennis	Ashley
	Resonance of Fate	Leanne
	The Croods: Prehistoric Party	Sandy
	Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII	Lumina

Other dub roles

List of performances in other dubs

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
1999–2002	Noggin	Announcer
2010	Two and a Half Men	Jenny (V.O.)	Ep. "Aye, Aye Captain D*uche"
2010	Modern Family	Baby Lily	Ep. "Fears"
2012	Dog with a Blog	The voice of Freddy
2012-	Nick Jr.	Announcer